Senior UX Designer, Design System

The Basics

As a Senior UX Designer on the Design System team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the foundational styles, patterns, and UI elements for Tanium solutions across our entire platform. The projects you’ll be working on will require new ways of engaging with our solutions, to continue bringing AI strategies to Tanium product solutions. You will be charged with working with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, visually appealing, and highly functional interfaces that meet the needs of our customers.

Tanium delivers comprehensive, autonomous management of endpoints, including security, incident response, patching, change management, and performance monitoring capabilities. 

What you’ll do

• Design System Design: Design repeatable, scalable patterns and componentry to be leveraged by both design and engineering.
•  User Interface Design: Design and prototype user interfaces for enterprise software applications, ensuring seamless navigation, usability, and accessibility.
• User Experience Enhancement: Conduct user research, analyze feedback, and iterate on designs to optimize user experience and satisfaction.
•  Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers, and UX/UI designers to understand requirements, refine features, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Prototyping and Testing: Develop interactive prototypes to validate design concepts and usability and conduct usability testing to gather actionable insights for improvement.
• Documentation: Document design decisions and best practices to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team. 

We’re looking for someone with 

• Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, computer science, or a related field or equivalent work experience. 
• Experience
  • Proven experience (5+ years) in UI/UX design, specifically in a Design System capacity.
  • Understanding of systems design, tokens, and atomic design principles
  • Experience designing in technical, B2B solutions
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.
  • Strong UI skills and understanding of design systems in Figma
  • Experience with user research methods, prototyping tools, and usability testing.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Experience with data visualization and/or dashboard design.
  • Experience designing for AI and Agentic AI technologies. 

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $169,000 to $259,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.